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6 years’ experience working with data. Expertise in quantitative modeling, growing people and making data-driven decisions. Currently working as a Research Associate (Ph.D. Candidate) at the intersection of computer science, statistics and the social sciences as member of both the Entrepreneurship & Data Science groups.

I am looking for a position where I can use the skills that I have developed during my years in practice and academia to lead projects in the frame of analytics. As Data Scientist at Gebr. Heinemann, I would be able to leverage my expertise in both instructing and implementing data-driven methodologies (technologies used mostly: R, SQL and Python).


Industry Experience

Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany

Program Manager | Research Associate (Institute of Entrepreneurship)

Conducting collaborative research, teaching students, managing industry projects while pursuing independent research and further academic and data science related qualifications.

  • Lead of B2B/B2C industry innovation projects (focus: digital transformation, big data analytics)
  • Designed and conducted multiple lecture units and exams in entrepreneurship and data science
  • Developed and implemented a Digital Teaching and Learning Ecosystem to teach classes remotely
  • Supervised student theses, projects and internships
  • Presented at international conferences and about to publish in related journals

Lufthansa Technik AG, Miami, USA & Hamburg, Germany

Master’s Degree Candidate (dept.: Closed Loop Supply Chain Management)

Created a custom AI-based solution for reducing cost & response time (in collaboration with IBM Watson).

  • Communicated with stakeholders to define project parameters and keep them up to date on project status
  • Optimized use of resources to complete projects ahead of deadline and under budget
  • Designated resources, assigned tasks and monitored performance for each part of the project

Horváth & Partners Management Consultants, Frankfurt on the Main, Germany

Management Consulting, intern (dept.: Transportation, Travel & Logistics)

Worked as a PMO manager on a project for the development of new location concepts of a large European railroad company, replacing the entire existing infrastructure of this major corporate.

  • Operational execution of PMO activities (reporting, budget tracking, preparation and follow-up of meetings)
  • Assistance in establishing the project structure
  • Preparation of profitability calculations and capacity / utilization analyses for the individual sites

AUDI AG, Neckarsulm, Germany

Process Optimization, intern (dept.: Body Construction A6/A4)

As coordinator of the Lean Manufacturing Team, I was responsible to help people to understand the Lean Management philosophy and the operational excellence approach of AUDI (Audi Production System, APS).

  • Training and coaching of lean methods with focus on problem solving, logistics and process synchronisation
  • Preparation, implementation and moderation of shopfloor management projects in direct and indirect areas
  • Optimizing various processes via process mapping and value stream analysis


Fraunhofer institutes (ILT & IPT), Aachen, Germany

Student assistants

L’Arche Greater Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada

(Live in) Care Assistant (Alternative mandatory community service)

Teaching Experience

Data Science

Designer & Instructor of multiple business oriented Data Science and Machine Learning courses:

  • Data Science certificate program
  • Business Decisions with Machine Learning
  • Business Data Science Basics
  • Building Business Data Products

Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Teaching students skills needed to build a technology startup from the ground up in varying classes:

  • Startup Engineering
  • Sustainable Entrepreunrship
  • Technology Entrepreunrship
  • Creation of Business Opportunities

Education

RMIT University Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Visiting Research Scholar

Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany

Ph.D. Thesis in Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship Science

Quantitative dissertation (using SQL, R, Python) on the influence of social, structural and reputational effects on entrepreuneurial success.

  • Creation of various databases by scraping different data providers and collaborative platforms
  • Natural language processing on linkedin and startup databases to extract features for network analysis
  • Machine Learning and statistical analysis on large (> 5 billion records) github and stackoverflow datasets

Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands

Visiting Research Scholar

Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Visiting Research Scholar

RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Business Administration & Engineering

Professional Development (Certification)

Business Science University, remote

Applying enterprise-grade end-to-end projects (business & finance) using machine learning and web apps.

DataCamp, remote

Foundations of data science including statistics, inference, computer science, predictive analytics, machine learning and other technologies to gain insights from big data (using R, Pyhton and SQL).